Mike Lukaszuk is an experimental music composer and sound artist from Kingston, Ontario. Much of his creative and scholarly output explores the idea of generativity in music and sound art through the use of mobile devices, musical AI and coding as artistic practice.
His music and research have been presented at multiple International Computer Music Conference (Utrecht; 2016, Shanghai; 2017, Daegu; 2018), SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United Sates) and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival events, and at the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, the Now Hear This festival (New Music Edmonton), Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts (Winnipeg) and the Australasian Computer Music Festival, in addition presentations at festivals in Europe, South America and Asia. His writings on electroacoustic music can be found in publications such as Emille (the Korean Electroacoustic Music Society), Chroma (Australasian Computer Music Association), and eContact! (Canadian Electroacoustic Community). He won 1st Prize in the Hugh Le Caine Awards – (electroacoustic music category) of the 2015 SOCAN Foundation Young Composer Awards. His work can be found on releases from Ablaze Records and New Adventures in Sound Art. Mike holds a DMA in Composition from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he also taught computer music as an adjunct instructor in the composition department. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada), where he researched musicological issues in generative music and sound art. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), the University of Cincinnati and Queen’s University. Mike is currently based in Umeå, Sweden. He works as the Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Art at Umeå University.
michael.paul.lukaszuk@gmail.com